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Atticus

(15,124 posts)
Thu Mar 19, 2020, 01:40 PM Mar 2020

As I listened to Trump refusing to accept any responsibility for the near total failure of

the US response to the coronavirus pandemic, I could not help flashing back to one of the late Freddie Prinze's lines on the old "Chico and the Man" series: "'Ees not my zhyob, mon!"

Freddie was brilliant.

Trump?-----I don't have the energy or desire to start a list of appropriate descriptors for "it".

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As I listened to Trump refusing to accept any responsibility for the near total failure of (Original Post) Atticus Mar 2020 OP
tRump sets everyone else up for failure, then he blames them. RKP5637 Mar 2020 #1
When Conservatives spoke of "personal responsibility" Dawson Leery Mar 2020 #2
Huge kick and rec. love_katz Mar 2020 #4
The insider trading Republican Senators are proof that the conservatives Dawson Leery Mar 2020 #5
trump must be exhausted from having to show up at work every day. Walleye Mar 2020 #3

RKP5637

(67,111 posts)
1. tRump sets everyone else up for failure, then he blames them.
Thu Mar 19, 2020, 01:43 PM
Mar 2020

It's his modus operandi, as we've seen over and over again.

Dawson Leery

(19,348 posts)
2. When Conservatives spoke of "personal responsibility"
Thu Mar 19, 2020, 01:43 PM
Mar 2020

it always meant the "others" (minorities/women/non-Christians, etc...) needed to suck it up and accept their unjust lot in life.

love_katz

(2,580 posts)
4. Huge kick and rec.
Thu Mar 19, 2020, 02:39 PM
Mar 2020

^^^^^^^^^^^^THIS!!!!^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^This is the wrong-wing fundy fanatic playbook, to a T!

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